On Thursday 25 December 2003 02:53, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The
> kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and then
> switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is the penguin
> image which appears during the boot process. I have looked through boot
> mans (such as lilo.conf) but have not found any way to disable it. How to
> make Linux boot in text only mode, without fancy stuuf like images and
> colored text?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

append "console=ttyS0,38400n8" or whatever speed you want as a
parameter to linux (either from lilo or in lilo.conf).

Lilo tends to write to both serial and the screen, so that does not 
need any additional parameters.

David


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